Downtime Notice: Wednesday, August 31st 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM Eastern (-4 GMT)

[Cordovan]

UPDATE: The game worlds have reopened.

The DDO game worlds will be unavailable on Wednesday, August 31st from 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM Eastern (-4 GMT) to release Update 56: Archetypes and Archvillains. The release notes can be found on DDO.com.

[Aelonwy]

I was just about to ask about the maintenance window. I have nothing nice to say about the speed at which this update was shoveled at us so I will say nothing else.

[ahpook]

I was just about to ask about the maintenance window. I have nothing nice to say about the speed at which this update was shoveled at us so I will say nothing else.

Based on the Lam feedback it makes you wonder who this update is for. I don't think as many people hate it as the ED revamp (I could be wrong) but certainly not as many people are as excited by it. And it doesn't seem to be required to support the next release (like the ED revamp was to support the level increase). I am ambivalent on it except I greatly appreciate the bank UI revamp. I am now not dreading the Iconic TR I have planned for this week and dealing with the TR cache.

[TitusOvid]

So bank change will come tomorrow? I hope you have a good backup system installed. There will probably be people with pitchforks and torches camping out in front of your offices, if something goes wrong.
Good luck.

Cheers,
Titus

[FatBudScream]

Lets be positive, if we loose things we'll have a reason to refarm it. its genius move.

Thougt you were more a half-full glass guy O Mighty Titus my Beloved Leader.

[TitusOvid]

Lets be positive, if we loose things we'll have a reason to refarm it. its genius move.

Thougt you were more a half-full glass guy O Mighty Titus my Beloved Leader.

In everything but SSG, lolz.
Sorry SSG folks.

Cheers,
Titus.

[Aelonwy]

So bank change will come tomorrow? I hope you have a good backup system installed. There will probably be people with pitchforks and torches camping out in front of your offices, if something goes wrong.
Good luck.

Cheers,
Titus

Uhg. Now I'm even more concerned.

[J1NG]

If no notes can be posted today due to a technical issue, yet posting a post is not affected by a technical issue, else you can't post; this may suggest that there's other changes that have been "added" since Preview 3 on Lam.

Get ready for some surprises everyone...(!)

J1NG

[mikarddo]

Hopefully, a few more cheerful things have been added to the patch notes come tomorrow based on the feedback received.

- Obviously, we wont have a storage update without some real improvements in terms of actual storage. All current shared bank slots are being doubled. E.g., if you currently have 200 slots in the shared bank you now have 400. Also, the price of shared bank slots and character bank slots have been reduced significantly.

- Further, all minor artifacts and many older raid items (3+ years old) have been made BtA.

- On further reflection the nerf to FvS (and Clerics) was too much. Holy Smite is now 1d6+6, and AoV cores 1, 3 and 5 add +1 caster level while all AoV cores add +1 max caster level.

- We hear you on Sonic Blast. It is not being nerfed and thus remain AoE. Instead Lightning Strike from Stormsinger does not proc from Sonic Blast. That was, afterall, the real issue.

- Aasimar. Back to 7 total but we had to nerf the recharge, sorry, it was just too good.

- ToEE. We really want you guys to run these so we gave them really good xp. And by really good we mean really, really good. So go forth and enjoy these quests with excellent xp rewards. We do expect to have to reduce this down the line but for now we just want to make sure you swarm these quests.

and probably a few more changes from the Lam notes to cheer things up.

[kmoustakas]

I was just about to ask about the maintenance window. I have nothing nice to say about the speed at which this update was shoveled at us so I will say nothing else.

We are meant to shut up and swallow it. Take our medicine like good little boys and girls and everything between.

[thegreatcthulhu]

We are meant to shut up and swallow it. Take our medicine like good little boys and girls and everything between.

It's hard to not feel that way anymore about any game that uses the tried and true dev practice of "throw it to the users and stick your head in the sand" methodology. I know I'm repeating an echo, but if SSG/Turb just came out and said "we don't care about your feels", it would at least be honest.

[fatherpirate]

You know, there is absolutely .... I would say nothing but the bank update might help me ....
'nothing (almost)' in this update for me.

I am ok with it.
Maybe because I am a casual player and can care less about multiple lives.
Even though it really has very little for me.

But it would seem that the Long time, multi-life,
raid for life crowd wants to (stealing your term)
nuke it from space.

I get told (over and over again) that I do not like
anything in the game ... I post, hey this update is ok
and out of the very woodwork come the vets screaming (basically) it must be Armageddon !

So I guess I am not even allowed to passively
be ok with some new content without a literal army
of detractors ready and poised to strike.

Don't you have anything better to do?
Why does my opinion cause a Tempest ?
Your never going to 'win' me over, but you
will certainly reinforce what I already think
concerning the Vet player base.

Which is ironic since I have been here longer than several of you.
2008 to be exact ---- 14 yrs ago
Sure, blast this from orbit, knock yourselves out.

[LittleLexi]

Oh! I think I get it now...SSG are supposed to be the Archvillains. That's what it is. Can't imagine any good reasons otherwise for this horrendous update to our beloved game.

[ahpook]

You know, there is absolutely .... I would say nothing but the bank update might help me ....
'nothing (almost)' in this update for me.

I am ok with it.

I am with you on this though I am far more positive on the bank update. But you have to wonder, if updates are to give the players something new to be excited about and the best responses that they get is "I am ok with it because I don't care about it" then why are they releasing it as is?

[voxson5]

The DDO game worlds will be unavailable on Wednesday, August 31st from 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM Eastern (-4 GMT) to release Update 56: Archetypes and Archvillains. The release notes will be available on Wednesday due to a technical issue today.

[WilliamBraveheart]

The DDO game worlds will be unavailable on Wednesday, August 31st from 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM Eastern (-4 GMT) to release Update 56: Archetypes and Archvillains. The release notes will be available on Wednesday due to a technical issue today.

SOOOO it is wed morning where are the release notes

[silinteresting]

SOOOO it is wed morning where are the release notes

i concur with the above

your friend sil

[FURYous]

If you can't get the web page to work, I am sure most of us would be happy to read the release notes in the forums. Please post here until you get the web page working

[Havocthedemon]

SOOOO it is wed morning where are the release notes

It’s past the time when the update has started so yes this is a good question. W T F ssg it’s bad enough the nerfs are unwarranted and met with “hostile” receptions at best but you fail to listen to feedback and then don’t even post the release notes before you roll out the update? Absolutely horrendous service.

[Just_a_Dude]

The DDO game worlds will be unavailable on Wednesday, August 31st from 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM Eastern (-4 GMT) to release Update 56: Archetypes and Archvillains. The release notes can be found on DDO.com.

New time for game worlds being up?

Edit: It's patching now. That's a good sign.